How to Fix a Redirect Error in WordPress

1. Check with your Web hosting company to ensure that either mod_rewrite for Apache and lighttpd or Microsoft with the URL Rewrite 1.1 module is installed on your Web server. Otherwise, the WordPress rewrites will be unable to function correctly.
2. Log in to your WordPress blog.

3. Click 'Settings,' and 'Permalinks.'
4. Select one of the permalink structures listed on this page. You can also create a custom permalink structure using various tags, such as 'tegory%,' and '%postname%.' Save your changes to update your .htaccess file. Your WordPress blog begins redirecting the default numerical post names to the permalink post names once you have done so.

How to Add Meta Tags in WordPress

1. Locate the .PHP files for the theme you are using for your WordPress site.
2. Open the file containing the 'head' section for your site in a text editor. This file is usually called 'header.php.'

3. Add a new line in the text file between the opening
tag and the closing
tag.
4. Enter your meta tag information, such as a description, key words or the language of your site. An example might be:
.
5. Save the text file.
6. Upload the 'header.php' file to the FTP server that hosts your WordPress site.

How to Install Volusion Shopping Cart on WordPress

1. Visit your blog on your Web browser and click the 'Admin' button.
2. Enter your WordPress blog username and password at the prompt to log into the admin page.

3. Click 'Plugins' from the admin page, then click 'Add New.'
4. Click 'Upload' in the 'Install Plugins' window and click 'Browse.' Use the file browser that appears to locate the Volusion Shopping Cart ZIP File.
5. Click 'Install Now' to upload and install the shopping cart.

How to Get the WWW in the URL in WordPress

1. Sign into your self-hosted WordPress account. Type the username and password on the Admin log-in page.
2. Go to the 'Settings' panel on the dashboard's left sidebar. Click the 'General' link.

3. Find the 'WordPress address (URL)' field and add 'www' to the beginning of the domain name. For example, the full text would read, 'http://www.example.com' on the URL line.
4. Click the 'Save Changes' button at the bottom of the page. Your blog or website should populate the address with the 'www' prefix.

How to Enable SEF URLs in Wordpress

1. Log into the Wordpress Dashboard at Wordpress.com.
2. Click 'Settings,' then 'Permalinks.' Under 'Common Settings,' select the 'Custom Structure' radio button; this will allow you to enter your own template for permalinks in the adjacent box.

3. Type:/%post_id%/%postname%.htmlThis creates permalinks of the form 'http://www.yourblog.com/53/title-of-post-fifty-three.html,' with both the post's number and title rendered legibly in the URL. Click 'Save Changes' to incorporate the new style.

Tutorial on How to Back Up Your WordPress Blog

Backing Up WordPress Content
1. Navigate in your Web browser to the dashboard page for your WordPress website. Enter your user name and password to continue if prompted.
2. Open the 'Tools' section of the dashboard menu, and then click the 'Export' link. This displays the WordPress content exporting tool.

3. Click the 'All Content' radio button under 'Choose what to export' to back up all of the content of your WordPress website.
4. Click the 'Download Export File' button. The Web browser displays a file download window. Save this file to the location of your choice. To restore the content of your website or migrate content to a new website, open the 'Tools' section of the dashboard and click the 'Import' link. This file contains only the text content that you have added to your website. To back up uploaded files such as images, continue to the next section.
Backing Up WordPress Uploads
5. Connect to your Web server by entering the address 'ftp://username:password@ftp.mywebsite.com' in a Windows Explorer window. Substitute your user name, password and website address using the information that your Web hosting provider sent when you opened your account.
6. Open the 'public_html' folder.
7. Open the 'wp-content' folder.
8. Drag the 'uploads' folder to your desktop to download it from the Web server. This folder contains all of the images and other files that you have uploaded to your website. If you have changed the default upload folder in WordPress, download that folder instead.

How to Move a Drupal Blog to WordPress

1. Create backups of your Drupal database. The method for this will be different for each situation, since your host determines the access to your SQL database. Use your mySQL administration panel to download the tables from your Drupal database; this creates a text or comma separated values file with all of your blog entries. If you lose the contents of your blog when changing the content management system, you can restore the database.
2. Install WordPress in a new folder on your server, or on a separate server. Configure the site to suit your needs. Create a new database specific to your WordPress site. Do not name the WordPress database with the same name as your Drupal database.

3. Create categories in WordPress to match the structure of your Drupal site. Select your theme and add any plug-ins and widgets that you plan to use. Structure your WordPress site to match your Drupal site as much as possible. Create the same menus, categories and tags.
4. Manually transfer your Drupal content to WordPress posts. Use two separate browser windows, one for each site. Log in to Drupal and open a post, then copy all of the contents and paste them into a new post in your WordPress site. For sites with only a few dozen posts, this process is the simplest way to move your content. For sites with hundreds of posts, use a migrating script through your MySQL administration panel.